PLANTS & GARDENS
Here you will find a serene viewing platform where I rotate images of gardens past and present, plants, and my own design work.
Two early American Garden History Heroines delved into the fascinating world of carnivorous plants. Rebecca Austin and Mary Treat were primary sources of information about these unique life forms, corresponding with Asa Grey, Joseph Hooker and Charles Darwin.
Here are pictures of carnivorous plants from around the globe. At first glance many could be described as most delicate and unassuming life forms!
Carnivorous Plants
Lucretia Weems Design
Here are a few of my western landscape designs from over the years
Aristolochia Dutchman's Pipe
This fascinating family of paleomedicinal pollenator plants is featured here
The Paper Mosaicks of Mary Delany
Learn more about this garden history heroine in This Wild Life
Perideniya Botanical Gardens Kandy
These gardens have existed since the 13th century in modern day Sri Lanka. This Wild Life features the story of Anna Maria Walker, who visited and collected there two hundred years ago!
